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Plausibly Deniable

by Lukas and Saila · English · Tech & Science

Modern Anthropology Hosted by Lukas (https://x.com/SCHIZO_FREQ) and Saila (https://x.com/sailaunderscore) Sponsored by Polymarket, Zcash, CitizenX and Passage Press

New episodes: Weekly
Typical length: 2 hr 2 min
Latest: 8 Oct 2026
Language: English

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8 Oct 2026 · 2 hr 49 min

Ideological Reflexivity | Oliver Traldi

Lukas and Saila talk about political ideology, sacred beliefs, cultural shifts, and the changing nature of social norms with Oliver. They explore the rise and decline of wokeness, political tribalism, status competition, the influence of social media on democracy, and why people change their political allegiances. The conversation also covers academic freedom and tenure, modern dating and relationships, AI alignment and existential risk, the future of writing and journalism, AI-generated content, and why universities function more as credentialing institutions than places of…

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1 Oct 2026 · 1 hr 25 min
The Diminishing Returns on Telling the Truth
Lukas and Saila talk about absurdly long game release timelines, predicting movies before they exist, why “deny, deny, deny” and strategic dishonesty increasingly go unpunished, AI safety messaging and media incentives, technological pessimism and Ted Kaczynski’s critique of modernity, LASIK and cosmetic surgery, American healthcare and tort law, Social Security and voting incentives, and Roy Lee’s viral marketing strategy.Sponsored by:Polymarket: https://polymarket.comZcash: https://z.cashCitizenX: https://citizenx.comNetwork Press:…
24 Sep 2026 · 2 hr 42 min
The Audience Problem | Matthew Peterson
Matthew Peterson, founder of FORUM and The American Mind, joins Lukas and Saila to discuss the fights inside the Trump coalition, why Silicon Valley hasn't won over the populists, and what right-wing media would look like if it cared about building things. They get into FORUM's Joe Lonsdale–Joe Allen debate, the resentment behind the data-center backlash, AI as empowerment or centralized control, privacy, regulation, and whether the government ends up with its own frontier lab. The conversation also covers Peterson's route through academia, Claremont, New Founding, and Blaze; corporate…
17 Sep 2026 · 1 hr 10 min
The Problem with Knowing Things
Lukas and Saila talk about product reviews and Costco bulk buying, AI safety and political burnout, Middle East news and the Lindsay Clancy trial, how people evaluate medicine and scientific evidence, podcast analytics and consumer behavior, crypto and the Clarity Act, jury trials, cooking, sun exposure, fishing, and the very different cultures of YouTube and X.Sponsored by:Polymarket: https://polymarket.comZcash: https://z.cashCitizenX: https://citizenx.comNetwork Press: https://network.press_______________________________Plausibly Deniable: https://plausiblydeniable.orgOur tools are…
10 Sep 2026 · 1 hr 38 min
Game Theory Optimal
Welcome back to the Plausibly Deniable Experience. Lukas and Saila enter Soycast mode to reconstruct cooking from first principles, prove that bachelor slop is game-theory optimal, and explain why sharing food with roommates produces resentment instead of consumer surplus. We investigate the hidden fat tax, nuclear-powered dishwasher cabinets, and whether the government should pay your grandmother to cook for you.Then: why Twitter got boring, quote-tweet parasitism, synthetic OpenAI equity, and corporate jobs that have quietly become pensions. Doug Leone’s homelessness story becomes a debate…
3 Sep 2026 · 2 hr 3 min
AI News And The Manufactured Internet | Brian Chau
Brian Chau has figured out how to use AI for journalism without producing AI slop: make the models read mountains of documents, then make humans write the story.Brian is the founder of Effort News, a publication using long-context AI to comb through federal databases, financial records, legal filings, and other giant piles of public data for stories everyone else missed. He joins Lukas and Saila to explain the refugee-resettlement grant investigation that convinced him to launch Effort, why ordinary journalism is often built around stories sources want “placed,” and what changes when you can…
27 Aug 2026 · 1 hr 33 min
The Reindustrialization Of America | Jakob Diepenbrock
Jakob Diepenbrock is running a hard-tech fund from El Segundo, backing young engineers building defense, manufacturing, robotics, energy, and other critical industries. He joins Lukas and Saila to explain how he skipped the credential ladder, built Discipulus Ventures, raised a fund by treating the process like a startup launch, and why Anduril’s breakout made defense tech the allocation everyone suddenly wanted. They also discuss cost-plus military contracts, drones versus soldiers, DJI’s domination of creator hardware, automated American textile factories, why humanoid robots are TikTok…
20 Aug 2026 · 2 hr 3 min
The Bliss of Confirmation Bias — w/ Covfefe Anon
Covfefe Anon returns to Plausibly Deniable to discuss the bliss of confirmation bias: how to engineer a viral take, why the edit may be the native medium of the 21st century, and why Angry Birds might be the most fascist movie ever made. Lukas, Saila and Covfefe review films they have not seen, explain why ironic criticism only makes its targets cooler, and consider whether Confirmation Bias is actually a better name for the podcast. The conversation also covers Ryan Gosling, Barbenheimer, James Bond, public-domain superheroes and AI remakes, Joe Biden and the death of the presidency,…
13 Aug 2026 · 1 hr 34 min
Coin-Flipping and the Linguistic Destruction of America
America has become a coin-flipping economy—and the language we use now punishes anyone foolish enough to take things seriously. Lukas and Saila discuss AI psychosis and a 76,000-contact CRM, the fragmented B2B SaaS economy, travel-authorization scams, tax software, W-2 employment, lawsuits, bankruptcy, fake sponsorships, macro investors with monkey pictures, crypto traders posting inspirational corn after blowing up, and Costco gold arbitrage. Then they turn to the linguistic destruction of America: how “try-hard,” “glazing,” the IDGAF war, and “Woke One” made effort, admiration,…
6 Aug 2026 · 1 hr 49 min
Cooking With Arsenic: Why Cops Can't Shoot Pet Cats
Lukas and Saila talk about an accidental arsenic-poisoning bonfire, frustrating hospital visits, bizarre injuries, the Hunter Biden–Nick Fuentes interview, Gavin Newsom, European manufacturing, aging, astrology and viral internet tools, gender and dating dynamics, rural life, bulk food, FBI encounters, online anonymity, food quality, RFK Jr., AI culture, Silicon Valley politics, cats, dogs, strange neighbors, self-deception and AI-assisted coding.Sponsored by:Polymarket: https://polymarket.comZcash: https://z.cashCitizenX: https://citizenx.comNetwork Press:…
28 Jul 2026 · 2 hr 19 min
Private Money And The Norwood Supremacy: w/ Mert
Mert Mumtaz, co-founder and CEO of Helius, joins Lukas and Saila to explain why privacy is crypto’s unfinished business, why he sees Zcash as encrypted—or “better”—Bitcoin, and what the Ironwood upgrade means for the Orchard pool, supply integrity, formal verification and quantum recoverability. They compare Zcash and Monero, unpack fungibility and tainted coins, discuss private finance on Solana and Helius’s work with Light Protocol, and examine why public blockchains risk becoming a global financial panopticon. The conversation then moves into AI, DeFi security, startup hiring, company…
23 Jul 2026 · 2 hr 22 min
The Libertarian Addiction to Losing and New Hampshire Nationalism: W/ Jeremy Kauffman
Jeremy Kauffman joins the Positively Deniable Experience to explain how spending a few hours per week on libertarian politics helped throw the national Libertarian Party into chaos—and why he believes the Free State movement is succeeding in New Hampshire while the national party remains committed to losing. Jeremy recounts the rise of LBRY and Odysee, the SEC case that destroyed the company, crypto’s early generation of true believers, and the attempt to build a censorship-resistant alternative to YouTube. He also explains how the Libertarian Party of New Hampshire grew its X account from…
16 Jul 2026 · 2 hr 12 min
Escaping The IQ Shredder: with Spandrell
Spandrell joins us to explain the “IQ Shredder”: how successful cities attract ambitious, intelligent people from across the world, place them into a hypercompetitive rat race, and then make it nearly impossible for them to reproduce. We discuss why fertility is collapsing across virtually every developed society, whether Israel has escaped the trend, why financial incentives have repeatedly failed, and what governments could realistically do to make family formation prestigious again. Spandrell also explains Bio-Leninism—his theory of how political systems recruit people with few…
7 Jul 2026 · 2 hr 9 min
Nukes are Good For You, Actually
The boys return under plague conditions to discuss why nukes might be less socially destructive than dating discourse, the ethics of height-maxxing children with growth hormone, the “ship it, I guess” approach to biohacking, trad life vs gene editing, Europe’s anti-AC death drive, Singapore, Yarvin, Nick Land, cats, prediction markets, bought accounts, World Cup confusion, and why prediction markets might just be manifestation markets.Sponsored by:Polymarket: https://polymarket.comZcash: https://z.cashCitizenX: https://citizenx.comNetwork Press:…
26 Jun 2026 · 2 hr 2 min
The Sensitive Old Man Problem
Lukas and Saila return from San Francisco with takes on city discourse, scam calls, GLP-1s, power-law dating, Elon’s financial engineering, Polymarket political markets, RFK Jr., airport lounge arbitrage, SFO baggage purgatory, “not financial advice” disclaimers, pharmaceutical ads, weed, birth control, IQ-tiered libertarianism, and why every abstract argument eventually becomes a dating take.Sponsored by:Polymarket: https://polymarket.comZcash: https://z.cashCitizenX: https://citizenx.comNetwork Press: https://network.press_______________________________Plausibly Deniable:…
11 Jun 2026 · 1 hr 59 min
Bay Area House Party Epilogue
Lukas records through food poisoning while the boys recap San Francisco, Bay Area house parties, Twitter people becoming real, unlimited oysters, Crime George, social minefields, Uber drivers, crypto trading, Modern Warfare 2, travel degeneracy, lost wallets, coconut water, Ray Peat breathing, Veblen goods, publicists, and whether having a podcast has made normal social interaction impossible. Sponsored by: Polymarket: https://polymarket.com Zcash: https://z.cash CitizenX: https://citizenx.com Network Press: https://network.press _______________________________ Plausibly Deniable:…
6 Jun 2026 · 1 hr 59 min
Beyond Dual Citizenship: The Case for Becoming a Rootless Cosmopolitan
NEED SOME PASSPORTS??https://citizenx.com/?ref=PlausiblyDeniableAlex from CitizenX joins Plausibly Deniable to explain the strange, funny, and increasingly important world of buying citizenship.We talk about why wealthy people are collecting passports, how citizenship by investment actually works, why Europe is cracking down on “golden passport” programs, and why more people are treating passports as geopolitical insurance. Alex breaks down the difference between residency, citizenship, and passports; the main tiers of citizenship programs; why El Salvador’s passport is different; and why…
30 May 2026 · 3 hr 45 min
Vegas: Ragebait Advertising and The 'Idea' of Fun
Vegas is no longer pretending to be normal.This episode starts with the Enhanced Games, Polymarket’s viral “steroid Olympics” coverage, the strange incentives around performance enhancement, and why people misunderstood what the first Enhanced Games actually proved. Then we get into the anthropology of modern Vegas: male models, status games, fake DJ sets, clubbing where nobody talks to each other, and a dating culture where the photo has replaced the actual interaction. We also cover TSA house rules, American tort law, why healthcare and contact lenses are so much more annoying in the U.S.,…
15 May 2026 · 1 hr 56 min
Extremely Alternative Medicine, Cooking While Homeless and The Art of Seduction via Carrier Pidgeon
In this episode of Plausibly Deniable, the boys investigate the greatest arbitrage in modern America: food trucks, male slop, crockpots, Discord servers, fake enterprise software, BlueAnon, healthcare middlemen, manifesto technology, European decline, and a raccoon bite story that probably should have gone to a doctor. They also get into Polymarket AI model markets, why Discord should just rebrand itself as Slack for adults, why cooking for one person is fake productivity, whether every market can be explained with rugs, and why the modern political internet keeps producing increasingly…
8 May 2026 · 2 hr 34 min
Enhanced Games: Bioengineered Sports, Ethical Superhumans, and Making Your First Billion w/ Christian Angermayer
Christian Angermeyer joins Plausibly Deniable to discuss the Enhanced Games, performance-enhancing drugs, psychedelic medicine, longevity, telehealth, ambition, and building companies around controversial ideas before they become mainstream. Christian argues that the debate around performance enhancement is stuck in moral panic, bad incentives, and missing data. He explains why the Enhanced Games are designed not just as a sports spectacle, but as a research and media platform: athletes competing with medically supervised enhancement, data being collected at scale, and a broader business…
1 May 2026 · 3 hr 34 min
The Conservative case for the Machine God - w/ Lomez
Lomez joins Plausibly Deniable for a long conversation on the old internet, the rise of online politics, academia, Gamergate, Twitter, AI, prediction markets, publishing, and the strange incentives of modern work. We talk about Lomez’s path from an early remote job at Google to academia, how 2014-era campus politics pushed him online, the evolution of the dissident right, the social justice warrior era, the shifting meaning of “woke is over,” and how internet subcultures moved from fringe jokes to real political force. We also get into Passage Press, Lomez’s publishing company, including its…
24 Apr 2026 · 49 min
Reasonable Political Centrism w/ The Most Normal Man Alive - Howling Mutant
Internet comedian Howling Mutant joins Plausibly Deniable to talk about getting doxxed, becoming an accidental Goodreads influencer, the strange sociology of right-wing Twitter, journalism, media trust, AI art, gym culture, looksmaxxing, and why the internet turns every private embarrassment into public lore. The conversation starts with the story of how Howling’s personal information was dug up and spread online, then veers into Goodreads power rankings, the decline of nerd culture, media narratives, “fell for it again” politics, Iran war arguments, anime pronunciation scandals,…
14 Apr 2026 · 2 hr 45 min
Infinite Doomscroll Capitalism: Market Efficiency or Eternal Torture?? w/ signüll
Welcome to the Plausibly Deniable experience. Today, we have a very special guest: one of the greatest posters on X, Signull We explore the bizarre realities of hyper-optimized capitalism, from the dual opt-in mechanics of dating apps to the wild world of DIY Korean Botox and 14-year-olds getting "preventative" injections before Signull tells us about the app he just built - https://skyeapp.ai/ Later, we discuss OpenAI's side quests , Anthropic's focus on coding , and why the infinite scroll is the ultimate IQ filter Sponsored by: Polymarket: https://polymarket.com Zcash: https://z.cash…
9 Apr 2026 · 2 hr 11 min
Trading the Apocalypse: Silver, AI, and the Fall of China - w/ Alexander Campbell
Today, we sit down with the legendary Alexander Campbell, former prop trader at Lehman Brothers during the '08 crisis and ex-head of commodities at Bridgewater He unpacks his viral (and wildly profitable) silver trade, breaking down why the massive demand from solar panel production has created the perfect setup for a historic supply squeeze. (Follow his substack btw: https://www.campbellramble.ai/) We also take a deep dive into the macroeconomic landscape, dissecting why Ray Dalio was a dollar bear, how the US suffers from financial "Dutch disease," and why stablecoins are actually…
4 Apr 2026 · 2 hr 22 min
Total Societal Destruction and the Asymptote of Homoeroticism - w/ Covfefe Anon
Welcome back to another episode of Plausibly Deniable. This week, Lukas and Saila are joined by the legendary X poster Covfefe Anon. We dive deep into the cultural shifts of the past few years, from the COVID-19 pandemic and the reality of low-trust societies to the modern dating market and the incentive structures of prediction markets. Sponsored by: Polymarket: https://polymarket.com Zcash: https://z.cash CitizenX: https://citizenx.com Network Press: https://network.press _______________________________ Plausibly Deniable: https://plausiblydeniable.org Lukas: https://x.com/SCHIZO_FREQ…
25 Mar 2026 · 1 hr 58 min
How to trade a paperclip into an imaginary trillion dollars
In this episode, we dive deep into the absurdities of modern society, starting with some highly questionable dating advice at the gym. We explore why people are treating AI like the ultimate "yes man," the delusion of the paperclip trading hustle, and how Grok's diagnoses will tell you you're just "ascending". The conversation gets real (and slightly unhinged) as we break down why the U.S. healthcare system acts like a massive money laundering operation and why flying to Asia for medical care might be your best bet. We also tackle the ultimate financial scams: timeshares, 30-year mortgages,…
18 Mar 2026 · 1 hr 57 min
The Golden Age of Unseriousness
Welcome back to the Plausibly Deniable experience. In this episode, we dive into why pickleball is the new run club scam , the reality of the "fraud-shaped economy" , and the impossible task of gatekeeping luxury goods. We break down why Apple is selling you a bucket of spare parts , the absolute un-seriousness of billionaires like Jeff Bezos and Brian Johnson , and why Filipino clip farms are actually pulling the strings of global culture. Plus, we cover wild Polymarket bets , the superiority of the French counter-signal , and why you need to stop being a W2 employee immediately to start…
11 Mar 2026 · 1 hr 57 min
How to Make Friends and Influence People (Dark Triad Edition)
We discuss why ruining your life might actually be the best thing for you, the insane cope of the modern gender wars, and why people are paying hundreds of dollars to learn how to pull their jaws with their thumbs. We also break down the fake geopolitical wars padding out the news cycle, the $70 million tech parties for employees doing literally nothing, and the Twitter files revealing the FBI's obsession with deleting 20-follower accounts.Later, we get into the absolute state of AI: why Microsoft Copilot is holding back human progress, Elon Musk's Grok bending the knee to furries, and the…
6 Mar 2026 · 1 hr 48 min
“Turning 50 is not that bad” and other forms of increasingly tortured and embarrassing cope, with Delicious Tacos
This week, Lukas and Saila sit down with the legendary internet author Delicious Tacos to discuss his transition into his 50s and his relentless writing process. We dive deep into the economics of Substack, the truth about why the internet rewards "slop" over high art, and how to authentically build an audience online.DT also shares his uncensored thoughts on the "Worst Boyfriend Ever" Substack, using AI for creative work, and why you should probably quit your day job. Plus, we look at the wild world of Polymarket and the odds of predicting global conflicts.Buy DT's novel Finally Some Good…
27 Feb 2026 · 1 hr 42 min
The Furry Industrial Complex, Tipping in America and Polymarket Manifestations
From the dark corners of furry discords to the high-stakes world of Polymarket, we are BACK. In this episode, we break down why female looksmaxers have to lie to survive, why you should be terrified of the "furry industrial complex," and the philosophy of "min-maxing" your entire existence.Plus, we deep dive into the "Harrison Bergeron" effect on society, why Clavicular might actually be People's Sexiest Man Alive, and how Saila got psychologically played by a donut shop employee. Sponsored by: Polymarket: https://polymarket.com Zcash: https://z.cash CitizenX: https://citizenx.com Network…

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Modern Anthropology Hosted by Lukas (https://x.com/SCHIZO_FREQ) and Saila (https://x.com/sailaunderscore) Sponsored by Polymarket, Zcash, CitizenX and Passage Press

Plausibly Deniable is a English tech & science podcast from Lukas and Saila. Melo plays each episode straight from the publisher's own feed — no ads added, no account needed — and remembers where you stopped, in this browser only.

Publisher: Lukas and Saila
Language: English
Category: Tech & Science
New episodes: Weekly
Typical length: 2 hr 2 min
Latest episode: 8 Oct 2026
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